The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-04-19

lore IL OCcuEreu.
Capt. Bridges for the defense ex-
pected TO show that such was not the
case, that on the contrary the people
of SedaIia owed to Mr.. Page more
than any other man their safety.
The witnesses for the state, some
twenty in number, were called and
sworn.
w. III. Mason was the tir,t witness
to take the stand. At the time of
strike he was chief Of railway police
in Sedalia, he was on the train which
was wrecked the 23d of March, 1886,
think it contained ten box cars, a ca
.boose and engine, B1r. Bradley was
engineer, Mr.. Stanley conductor,
there was some fifteen persons on the
train, / was injured by the wreck, had
my arm broken in three places, was
injured in head, breast and back,
have not yet recovered from it, was
on top of third car from the front at
the time of wreck and was
thrown upon the second car
as it turned over: do not know what
caused the wreck. The strike was of
shopmen do not know the cause of
the strike.
Bridges 81 object"
The Court, after a pause. "P lease
state your objection, Captain the
court is tired of these causeless inter
ruptions and will hereafter recognize
no objections not properly made to
the court. Make your objections and
don't sit as If you were asleep"
Bridges-''I am not asleep, your
honor"
Court-''I should hope not, sir,
but attorneys should attend TO
their business promptly aud in or
der"
Bridges-'I withdraw my objec-
tien."
Witness-"I know Page, the de-
PENDANT, have known him about sew
en- years, he had worked in the shops
about FIVE years up to the time of the
strike. He was one of the strikers
the strike seemed to be organized. The
defendant was one of Its officers, the
strikers Obeyed him. He continued
to lead up to the time ! was injured.
The strikers stopped trains and
killed engines. Saw Page
order men off a train. Never
saw him order them on, saw
him on an engine two or three times.
The officers were often warned away
from the yards verbally, | was so
warned, don't think Page ever warned
me, the men who did so, generally
kept their faces concealed. Page and
Perry were the main leaders of the
strike.
The cross-examipation elected moth
ing further from the witness.
Brady, the engineer, was then
called, he told substantially the same
story as in the Hamilton trial.
YESTERDAY EVENINGS PROCEEDINGS
At the close of Mr.. Bradley's testi-
mony Peter Rockwell general road
master of the Missouri Pacific road
was called. He knew the defendant
Page. Knew him during the strike
as the chief manager for The strikers,
had been compelled to 20 10 him for
permission to coal Two engines to go
to the Omaha road. Page said he
would see the committee and shortly
after gave the permission aud the en-
gines were cOaled and sent out. Went to
him a second time on ike errand and
and Was refused. He made no excuse
to him for coming to him. Went TO
him because of the known fact that he
had authority over the strikers. He
was previous to the wrecking a leader
in stopping trains and capturing en-
gines, saw him get on the engines in
the lead.
Cross examined by Bridges, yes sir
do know different from his not leading
the strikers, know he led when one
engine was captured and was present
when the fire was knocked out. / DO
not know he WAS there TO disuade the
strikers from violence. Only know
his motives by the result | never
saw him take possession of the engines
never saw him order the strikers of,
an engine-ldo not know the engine
was not killed. Know the fire was
knocked out of it. Think he said he
would see the executive committee
when | asked permission to coal the
engines. | knew Irons, understood he
ordered the strike, j do not know it,
did state both times in the Ham
ilton trial that the west end of the
east rail had been moved inward and
spiked fast. My motive in stating the
persons doing the work must have
had a wrench made for that purpose,
was because IL was true. IL was nee